Polity Kingdom of Lindsey

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Was a small Kingdom created by the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that settled in England in the post-Roman period. It was absorbed into Northumbria.

Establishment

  • January 501: The kingdom of Lindsey existed from the 5th to the 8th century. The royal dynasty appears to have been established at a very early stage of Anglo-Saxon settlement.

Chronology

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1. End of Roman rule in Britannia and Armorica

The inhabitants of Britannia and Armorica expelled the Romans.

  • January 501: The kingdom of Lindsey existed from the 5th to the 8th century. The royal dynasty appears to have been established at a very early stage of Anglo-Saxon settlement.

Disestablishment

  • January 631: The missionary Paulinus worked in Lindsey in the 620s when it was under the rule of Edwin of Northumbria.